1 

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

2 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

3 

All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

4 

Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

5 

It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him."

6 

Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before The LORD's ark."

7 

They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before The LORD's ark."

8 

It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of The LORD's covenant followed them.

9 

The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

10 

Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."

11 

So he caused The LORD's ark to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.

12 

Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up The LORD's ark.

13 

The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns in front of The LORD's ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after The LORD's ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.

14 

The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

15 

On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

16 

At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!

17 

The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to The LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

18 

But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

19 

But all the silver, gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to The LORD. They shall come into The LORD's treasury."

20 

So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.

21 

They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

22 

Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her."

23 

The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

24 

They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of The LORD's house.

25 

But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

26 

Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before The LORD, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates."

27 

So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

1 

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore The LORD's anger burned against the children of Israel.

2 

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land."The men went up and spied out Ai.

3 

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."

4 

So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

5 

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

6 

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before The LORD's ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

7 

Joshua said, "Alas, Lord God, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

8 

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

9 

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

10 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

11 

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

12 

Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

13 

"Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for The LORD, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you."

14 

"'In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which the LORD selects shall come near by families. The family which the LORD selects shall come near by households. The household which the LORD selects shall come near man by man.

15 

It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed The LORD's covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

16 

So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

17 

He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

18 

He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

19 

Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to The LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

20 

Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against The LORD, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

21 

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."

22 

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

23 

They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before The LORD.

24 

Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

25 

Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? the LORD will trouble you today." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

26 

They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

1 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, and don't be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

2 

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."

3 

So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

4 

He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

5 

I and all the people who are with me will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

6 

They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

7 

and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

8 

It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to The LORD's word. Behold, I have commanded you."

9 

Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

10 

Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

11 

All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

12 

He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

13 

So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

14 

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

15 

Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

16 

All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

17 

There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

18 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand."Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

19 

The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

20 

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

21 

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

22 

The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

23 

They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

24 

When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

25 

All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

26 

For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 

Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to The LORD's word which he commanded Joshua.

28 

So Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

29 

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

30 

Then Joshua built an altar to The LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

31 

as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.

32 

He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses' law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

33 

All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of The LORD's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

34 

Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

35 

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

1 

When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

2 

they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

3 

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

4 

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

5 

and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.

6 

They went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

7 

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?"

8 

They said to Joshua, "We are your servants."Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

9 

They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

10 

and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.

11 

Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take supplies in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them. Tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

12 

This our bread we took hot for our supplies out of our houses on the day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has become moldy.

13 

These wine skins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."

14 

The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from The LORD's mouth.

15 

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

16 

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

17 

The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

18 

The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by The LORD, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

19 

But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by The LORD, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

20 

We will do this to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them."

21 

The princes said to them, "Let them live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."

22 

Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you live among us?

23 

Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."

24 

They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

25 

Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

26 

He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.

27 

That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for The LORD's altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.

1 

Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai. and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them.

2 

They were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

3 

Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

4 

"Come up to me and help me. Let us strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."

5 

Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

6 

The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon your servants! Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country have gathered together against us."

7 

So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and the whole army with him, including all the mighty men of valor.

8 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you."

9 

Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

10 

The LORD confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.

11 

As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, the LORD hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.

12 

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!"

13 

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day.

14 

There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

15 

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

16 

These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

17 

Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."

18 

Joshua said, "Roll large stones to cover the cave's entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

19 

but don't stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don't allow them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand."

20 

When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

21 

all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

22 

Then Joshua said, "Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."

23 

They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

24 

When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, "Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings."They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

25 

Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight."

26 

Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

27 

At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

28 

Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

29 

Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

30 

The LORD delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

31 

Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

32 

The LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

33 

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

34 

Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it and fought against it.

35 

They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

36 

Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it.

37 

They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

38 

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it.

39 

He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

40 

So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as The LORD, the God of Israel, commanded.

41 

Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.

42 

Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because The LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

43 

Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

1 

When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,

2 

and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

3 

to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

4 

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

5 

All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

6 

The LORD said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

7 

So Joshua came suddenly, with all the warriors, against them by the waters of Merom, and attacked them.

8 

The LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward. They struck them until they left them no one remaining.

9 

Joshua did to them as the LORD told him. He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

10 

Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms.

11 

They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned Hazor with fire.

12 

Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

13 

But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.

14 

The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who breathed.

15 

As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.

16 

So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;

17 

from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck them, and put them to death.

18 

Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

19 

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.

20 

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

21 

Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

22 

There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

23 

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.

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Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

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Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

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and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

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and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

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and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

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Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

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These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

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in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

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the king of Jericho, one;the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

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the king of Jerusalem, one;the king of Hebron, one;

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the king of Jarmuth, one;the king of Lachish, one;

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the king of Eglon, one;the king of Gezer, one;

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the king of Debir, one;the king of Geder, one;

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the king of Hormah, one;the king of Arad, one;

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the king of Libnah, one;the king of Adullam, one;

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the king of Makkedah, one;the king of Bethel, one;

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the king of Tappuah, one;the king of Hepher, one;

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the king of Aphek, one;the king of Lassharon, one;

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the king of Madon, one;the king of Hazor, one;

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the king of Shimron Meron, one;the king of Achshaph, one;

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the king of Taanach, one;the king of Megiddo, one;

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the king of Kedesh, one;the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

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the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one;the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

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the king of Tirzah, one:all the kings thirty-one.